By Alanah Heffez

Photo du Jour : Landmarks

Wow, I think I managed to capture most of the city’s major landmarks in a single shot: Jacques Cartier bridge, downtown skyscrapers, a grain silo...

Photo du Jour : Buldozed Slum

I rarely venture into the northern part of the island, and on a trip along Boul Henri Bourassa last week I was surprised to find an entire city block...

Photo du Jour : Viger square fashion shoot

Photo taken June 18th 2009 in Viger Square.

Photo du Jour : Bordeaux

The prison located in the northern part of the island was built in 1912 and houses about 1200 male inmates serving sentences of under 2 years.

Teens in public space: when the world is your junglegym

The thing to do on prom night 1998 was to take the rented limo up to the lookout on Mount-Royal after a soirée of underage bar-hopping to see the sun...

Recipe for a Block Party

My block is having a party! Right here, right now. Outside my front door children are super-soaking each other, running through sprinklers, and selling...

Photo du Jour : Angle Parc et St-Viateur

Street festivals everywhere, all the time

For the second year, Ste-Catherine street is pedestrianized between Berri and Papineau. As if the village weren’t colourful enough, these yellow...

Photo du Jour – Water tower

A couple years back I noticed that Brooklyn had adopted the water tower as a mascot of sorts. Relics of a time when things were big and ugly and...

Rally for community centre squat ends in eviction

Last Friday, a group called the “Centre Social Autogéré” stated their intent to occupy an abandoned building and appropriate it as an...

The latest on the Lower Main

Spacing commentor Louis Rastelli called me out on this one: it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to critique the plans for 2-22 Ste-Catherine East...

2-22 Ste-Catherine – A whole new street

2-22 Ste-Catherine by night. Image by Société de Redéveloppement Angus, Paul Andreu, Aedifica & Gilles Huot, May 21 (PDF). It may be ugly, it may be...